BPA, from solar heated Hose...could it harm your plants?

[FlyingFoxFruits]

I've noticed sometimes the sun heats my hose up, to the point of melting plastic just about! 

But really, I can smell the essence of the hose (plastic smell), which makes me think of harmful BPA from plastics.

I've always let the hose run so the water stops smelling like hose plastic, then I water (at night the water is cool enough from cooking in the day time, to put right on your plants)

It's most likely negligible, but I always do this being OCD paranoid, and what have u, and what not, and so on and so forth. 

Any thoughts from ya'll? do yous guys have this same issue?

[fruitlovers]

You might just consider getting a better quality hose, like a rubber hose.

[GROW]

I always run the hose on the grass for a few minutes or at least until the outside of the hose is cold from the water.
I can smell the "melting plastic essence" on even the high quality hoses.

[FlyingFoxFruits]

You might just consider getting a better quality hose, like a rubber hose.

I think my hose is high quality,and also the polymers in the high quality hoses have the bpa.

I wonder if I germinated some seeds, and applied the plastic smelling water to one batch and not the other, if the non bpa batch would grow better??

[zands]

Plants are immune that stuff. You have plants growing around toxic waste dumps and (probably) right by the Chernobyl reactor. Seedlings?? They are more sensitive and maybe it would hurt them a little

[FlyingFoxFruits]

naw dawg,

I disagree, plants can be super sensitive.  Fluoride and chlorine alone have killed plants of mine!

[zands]

naw dawg,

I disagree, plants can be super sensitive.  Fluoride and chlorine alone have killed plants of mine!

Fluoride and chlorine are a different ballgame. BPA is just H, C and O strung together  ....(CH3)2C(C6H4OH)2. Harmful to humans but I doubt a plant cares

http://www.mnn.com/family/family-activities/blogs/bpa-plant-growth-study-yields-unexpected-results

[FlyingFoxFruits]

wow I was right !  scary!  did u read this article?  it says they did react to bpa

[fruitlovers]

You might just consider getting a better quality hose, like a rubber hose.

I think my hose is high quality,and also the polymers in the high quality hoses have the bpa.

I wonder if I germinated some seeds, and applied the plastic smelling water to one batch and not the other, if the non bpa batch would grow better??

I said rubber, as in Goodyear. They make em and sell em here! They are brick colored. No smell from those, but they do kink more than the stinky ones.

[FlyingFoxFruits]

thanks for the tip Oscar, not sure but seems like rubber may not have bpa...but I've never seen the hose so I don't know.

but unfortunatley many people don't have a rubber hose and never consider the effects of everyday exposure to bpa.

that's what I'm trying to address!  beware!  it can change your plants it seems!  they may take it up and store it!  for u to eat!

[fruitlovers]

thanks for the tip Oscar, not sure but seems like rubber may not have bpa...but I've never seen the hose so I don't know.

but unfortunatley many people don't have a rubber hose and never consider the effects of everyday exposure to bpa.

that's what I'm trying to address!  beware!  it can change your plants it seems!  they may take it up and store it!  for u to eat!

I'm much more concerned about the water i give to my chickens. It runs through one of those stinky plastic hoses. But i let it run for a while until cold and then fill their dish. I think Zands is right and animals tend to be a lot more sensitive to these compounds than plants, but if unsure it's always better to err on side of caution. The rubber hoses definitely don't have that stinky plastic smell. So might use one of them for the chickens as well now that you bring it up!

[zands]

I'm much more concerned about the water i give to my chickens. It runs through one of those stinky plastic hoses. But i let it run for a while until cold and then fill their dish. I think Zands is right and animals tend to be a lot more sensitive to these compounds than plants, but if unsure it's always better to err on side of caution. The rubber hoses definitely don't have that stinky plastic smell. So might use one of them for the chickens as well now that you bring it up!

You have something there with your chickens....I would give them the best and cut out the BPA as you suggest. Don't all animals concentrate such poisons in their liver as they try to discharge them out? For years I have been disgusted by people happily up taking plastic compounds via supermarket microwaved meals. The real winner in my book is sipping blazing hot coffee from a Styrofoam cup. How much plastic is being sucked down with your java? I have never done that though I may have caved and had hot soup in a Styrofoam cup once or twice

Just nuked some supermarket lasagna yesterday but on my own glass plate not in the plastic dish the meal came in